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Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015
ÅBO CAMPUS
LearningOutcome: Having completed the course the student
will have a further understanding of the Finnish national epos
Transferable skills: The course develops the students critical
and observational thinking, timemanagment and tutorial
study skills aswell as furthers skills in textual analysis.
Folklore studies reading and study circle in
English
5 credits
Intermediate level
Study circle
Offered: Spring 2015
Lecturers: MA Jakob Löfgren
Contact person: MA Jakob Löfgren
Form of assessment: Literature oral presentation or essay
Aim(s): On the exchange students' initiative one course per
year may be arranged in the form of a study or reading circle.
The department offers to arrange any of the intermediate
courses on the curriculum in the form of a study or reading
circle in English. This is done entirely on the request of the
students. The department offers ten hours of supervised dis-
cussion as a formof examination for any course in folkloristics.
Learning Outcome:
The student should be able to amongst themselves organize
and ask the head of the department for a study circle on a
course of their own choice. They should also have attended
the study circle actively.
Transferable skills:
The course develops the students critical and observational
thinking, timemanagment and tutorial study skills; furthers
skills in information management and presentation and
advances the student organizational skills.
Basic level (self-study):
Introduction to folklore studies
116000.0
5 credits
Basic level, no prerequisites
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim: In this course the student will learn what folklore is, and
look at expressions of folklore in today's world as well as how
it was expressed in the past. Central terminology, material
and methods in the field of folkloristics will be introduced.
The history of folkloristics
116001.0
5 credits
Basic level, no prerequisites
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim(s): An introduction to the history of Folklore Studies in
Europe and the Nordic countries. Motivations for collecting
and disseminating folklore material will be discussed. The
course also offers a presentation of older folkloristic theories
and methods.
To discover and understand everyday life
116002.0
5 credits
Basic level, no prerequisites
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim(s): The student will be encouraged to view her/his
everyday life with new eyes. There is much to discover and
understand in one's own culture once one knows what to look
for. The aim of the course is to teach the student to view the
world as a folklorist.
Verbal folklore
116004.0
5 credits
Basic level, no prerequisites
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim(s): You will learn to analyse and study different types of
folkloristic texts. Youwill also learn about different folkloristic
genres and what characterises them. We will analyse fairy
tales, legends, jokes, divinations, folksongs, and TV-shows
among other things.
The ritual year and festivities of life
116210.0
5 credits
Basic level, no prerequisites
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim(s): The focus of this course lies on the content of festive
practices, both those of life and those of the year. During this
course you will be acquainted to different kinds of traditional
festivities as well as how these can be studied from a folklor-
istic perspective.
Intermediate level (self-study):
Folkloristic analytical methods
116201.0
5 credits
Intermediate level, previous studies required
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim(s): When analysing folklore, knowledge of different
research methodologies is essential. Analytical methods,
both those previously used by folklorists and those presently
preferred by researchers, are introduced in this course.
Beliefs and rituals
116200.0
5 credits
Intermediate level, previous studies required
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim(s): The field of study of this course deals with varying
conceptions of the supernatural as well as rituals of everyday
life. The student will be familiarizedwith themethods used in
the study of folk belief as well as in the research of rituals. The
course deals with older and newer popular conceptions, such
as supernatural beings, folkmedicine andmedical anthropol-
ogy, modern folk religion and New Age.
Tradition in a changing world
116202.0
5 credits
Intermediate level, previous studies required
Self-study course
Contact: Lena Marander-Eklund
Aim(s): The aimof the course is to demonstrate ways how the
relationship between tradition and society can be studied, as
well as illustrating how society is made visible in present day
folklore and folkloristic research. Concepts such as culture,
tradition and environment are problematized and discussed.
